in light of
the case in New York, she would finally file charges over the matter, but the decision was postponed. Within hours of Ms Banon announcing her intentions, Mr Strauss-Kahn had instructed his lawyer to file a counteraction for false accusation. In a statement that was issued, he said the account given by Ms Banon was "imaginary".
The former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has been removed from the courtroom during his war crimes trial in The Hague for disrupting the
proceeding
s. Not guilty pleas were entered on his behalf after he said he would not respond. Matthew Price reports.
Ratko Mladic used perhaps the only weapons he still has at his disposal. With a mocking air, he tipped his cap towards relatives of some of his alleged victims in the public gallery. He then demanded that his own lawyer be allowed to represent him. The judge said the registrar would discuss that with him. Then as the judge moved on to
read out
the 11 charges, Ratko Mladic tore off the translation headphones he was wearing, saying he wasn't going to listen. "You are not a court," he ranted, shouting over the judge that he was talking
in vain
.
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are holding a rally outside the country's Supreme Court in Jerusalem. They are protesting against the arrest and questioning of two rabbis who backed a book which argues that the killing of non-Jews should be legal in some circumstances. The book, the King's Torah, says non-Jews including babies could be